logarithmic

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These phenomena fall within the domain of logarithmic conformal field theories.

From Science Daily • Dec. 16, 2025

The scale for brightness is reverse logarithmic, which means the brighter an object is, the lower its magnitude number.

From Salon • Mar. 10, 2023

But the February 6 earthquake was a 7.8—about four times bigger on the logarithmic scale of earthquake magnitudes.

From Scientific American • Feb. 22, 2023

It is a logarithmic scale: For each whole-number it rises, the amount of energy released by an earthquake increases by about 32 times.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2023

The virtue of such a coarse logarithmic safety scale is that it provides us, and particularly the media, with an order-of-magnitude estimate of the risks associated with various activities, illnesses, and procedures.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos